can't see win 2000 printer in suse 9.3

gub · 06-04-2005, 02:08 PM

Am using SuSE 9.3 and an HP printer on a Windows 2000 pro machine
not really experienced in linux or cups
searched forums about having to add printer via cups ip
however when i try to add it tells me i have to logon to gain access
i've tried to login as every user including root on my machine as well as the administrator on the other-- what do i need to do?-- what am i trying to?...I don't understand what cups is
please help me to use this printer
btw: no problem finding/accessing the machine via the /smb (?samba) folder, I can see all shared folders except one without standard shared name---don't know if that means anything

andrewdodsworth · 06-06-2005, 01:36 PM

To use the CUPS web interface you need to add a valid linux user as administrator. In a shell as root use

Code:

lppasswd -a <user>

and enter password when prompted. This will then be what you need when running the CUPS Web interface.

mokele · 06-07-2005, 05:06 PM

Read the whole thread

good luck!

gub · 06-14-2005, 01:22 PM

Thank you for you r help thus far, set up cups
NAME: HP3322
LOCATION://<workgroup>/<user@server>/hp3322(share name)
DEVICE:windows printer via samba
DEVICE URI:smb://<workgroup>/<user@server>/hp3322(share name)
MAKE:HP
MODEL/DRIVER:HP Deskjet 3320 Foomatic/hpijs (recommended) (en)--(3320 driver in Windows also)

connection successful, but no printing
printer queue on windows is hanging on 2 jobs with message:
"remote downlevel document" and "4.00k of 3.63MB"
any help?